...With a PhD in Spanish Literature, I've taught Spanish language, literature, and culture to college students, high school students, and grade school students. I know Spanish grammar and Hispanic culture, and literature particularly well. I majored in English at the University of Chicago, studied... (read more)
...Having lived part of my life overseas, I have had the chance to interact with various cultures and I am quite at ease with people from wherever they might be. I am aware that being armed with the best possible academic resources, gives one access to the many opportunities they will encounter in ... (read more)
...I work on increasing vocabulary, idiomatic (colloquial) language, and academic language while reading student-selected books and articles from real life. American Sign Language (ASL) is a unique language, with its own grammar, vocabulary, and idiomatic phrasing. I have taught ASL to hearing and deaf people of all ages over three decades. (read more)
8 Subjects: includingReading,English,ESL/ESOL,Sign Language
...I also have at least 24 hours of university coursework in computer science. I also familiarity with scripting and functional languages (particularly Mathematica and R but also some Python, Ruby, Lisp). I was a software in engineer for 14 years, primarily programming. This also included a primary focus in database application design and implementation. (read more)
...I wrote the Jackie Chan film AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS. When I moved to the DMV in 2018, I switched my focus to education and began teaching a screenwriting class at George Mason University, which I still teach to this day. Soon after, I got my VA Teacher's License so I could teach English to younger grades. (read more)